Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India svengali trick cards which if not for hanging

which if not for hanging pipes would make a fine rack for a few small plants or

with a string for hanging

I am not an expert on these (or fish

I think it could work as an unusual vase (spouting one big dramatic bloom

and appears to me to be quite old

Elaborately Beaded Miti Bharat Shrifal (Coconut), Gujarat India svengali trick cards which if not for hangingThis one I had to use a google image search to identify, as I really could not place it; I purchased it for the beauty of the beadwork, reminding me somewhat of late 19th century Native American beaded birds and the like. I've learned that it is, I believe, from Gujarat, on the Western Coast of India, where beadwork is called moti bharat, and I think an example of "Shrifal" beading covering a coconut (Indeed, the interior is hard and has the weight